Greece/Rome - NMSU Theatre Arts

162 Pages·2013·12.7 MB·English

by  Deborah Brunson

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GREECE

3000BC - 100BC

Influential People

•  Homer (poems-700BC)

•  Socrates (d.399BC) (critical reasoning, inquiry, moral concepts)

•  Plato (metaphysics)

•  Euclid (mathematician)

•  Archimedes (scientist)

•  Aristotle (logic, metaphysics)

•  Helen of Troy

•  Alexander the Great

Events/ Dates
•  3000-1184BC (alleged date-Trojan War)

•  Cretan-Mycenaean

•  1100-480BC--- Archaic Greek

•  480-400BC---"Golden Age"/ Classical

•  400-320BC---Fourth Century

Discus Thrower - circa 460 B.C.

•  300-100BC---Hellenistic

•  Athens (controlled an empire of 200 cities), Sparta and Corinth--major cities
Philosophy

•  Exalted the human body—search for the ideal

•  Searched for the meaning of life

•  Encouraged the personal search for happiness

•  Believed in the rational powers of man

•  Believed in MYTHOLOGY

Most Representative Statement of Period

•  Considered to be the core of Western thinking

•  Believed in simplicity and purity of form
Discoveries/ Inventions

•  Governmental Form (Athens)

•  Forum

•  Trial by Jury

•  Literary Form

•  Tragedy & Comedy

•  Running Water

•  Flushing toilets

•  The Olympics (Sparta)

Everyday Life/ Society

•  Individually governed City/States

•  Upper Classes

•  Men ran the government

•  Women ran the home and had little freedom outside the home (no
involvement in “affairs of men”).

•  Hetaerae- (literally means “comrades-in-arms”), the "Geisha" of
Greece

•  Bisexuality common

•  Lower Classes

•  Poor Citizens

•  Slaves
Excerpt from:

Let There Be Clothes by Lynn Schnurnberger (1991)
during Archaic-

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Helen of Troy

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Homeric poems committed to writing (Odyssey -
Iliad)

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Drama developed

• 

Greek mythology crystallized

during Golden Age-

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End of Persian domination

• 

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Socrates
(philosopher) wrote

during 4th century-

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Plato's philosophies

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Alexander the Great (dominated 2nd half)

during Hellenistic-

• 

Political power faded

• 

Culture spread

• 

Euclid, Archimedes, Aristotle (philosopher) wrote
VISUAL STYLE

•  Harmony

•  Rhythm

•  Balance

Architecture

• 

The Parthenon (Doric)

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The Acropolis (Ionic)

•  Colors (mentioned in Homer)

Yellow, Indigo, Green, Violet, Dark

Red, Purple, earth colors

Motifs

-- Fret or Key

–  Egg and Dart

–  Waves and meander

–  Many nature motifs (like the rosette)
Greek
Columns

sp07art110.wikispaces.com

Didyma, Turkey ruins